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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Gomez v. Bonneval 6 Mart. (o.s.) 656 1819 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Lunsford v. Coquillon 2 Mart. (n.s.) 401 1824 0 Freedom suit, conflict of laws, emancipation, property Louisiana
Dufour v. Delacroix 11 Mart. (o.s.) 719 1822 0 Wages, evidence Louisiana
Jourdan v. Williams 6 Mart. (o.s.) 659 1819 0 Successions, privileges, property, sales, community property Louisiana
Andry v. Foy 6 Mart. (o.s.) 689 1819 0 Sales, promissory notes, successions, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, contracts Louisiana
Augustin v. Cailleau 5 Mart. (o.s.) 464 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, seizure, successions, sequestration, property Louisiana
Delphine v. Deveze 2 Mart. (n.s.) 650 1824 0 Freedom suit, successions, damages, prescription Louisiana
Volant v. Lambert 6 Mart. (n.s.) 555 1828 0 Sales, conflict of laws, damages, petitory action, theft Louisiana
Compton v. Prescott 12 La. 56 1845 0 Successions, capacity, marriage, wills, property, legitimacy, onerous contracts, testamentary intent, partition Louisiana
Lyons ex rel. Farmers' Bank of Virginia v. Kenner 2 Rob. 50 1842 0 Promissory notes, warranty, redhibition Louisiana
Nimmo v. Bonney 4 Rob. 176 1843 0 Successions, wills, emancipation Louisiana
Leblanc v. Bouchereau 16 La. Ann. 11 1861 0 Sale of Slave, Contracts Louisiana
Hood v. Segrest 12 La. 210 1845 0 Possessory action, petitory action, sales, mortgages, property, prescription Louisiana
Clark v. Christine 4 Rob. 196 1843 0 Community property, fraud, privileges, partition Louisiana
Fink v. Martin 8 Rob. 256 1844 0 Property, seizure, sales, mortgages, fraud, simulation, fieri facias Louisiana
In re the Tutorship of Hacket 4 Rob. 290 1843 0 Community property, successions, tutorship, capacity, sales, intervenor, parol evidence Louisiana
Miller v. Belmonti 11 Rob. 339 1845 0 Freedom suit, sales, evidence, conflict of laws Louisiana
Pelham v. Steamboat Messenger 16 La. Ann. 99 1861 0 Sale of Slave, Death of Slave Louisiana
Morrison v. White 16 La. Ann. 100 1861 0 Sale of slave, Freedom Louisiana
Mouras v. Brewer 17 La. Ann. 82 1865 0 Recovery of stolen slave. Louisiana